{"id":78399,"date":"2018-06-15T22:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T04:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78399"},"modified":"2018-06-15T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:57:11","slug":"a-petition-filed-with-the-united-nations-human-rights-council-pursuant-to-chapter-4-complaint-procedures-of-resolution-5-1-institution-building-in-the-united-nations-human-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/15\/a-petition-filed-with-the-united-nations-human-rights-council-pursuant-to-chapter-4-complaint-procedures-of-resolution-5-1-institution-building-in-the-united-nations-human-right\/","title":{"rendered":"A Petition filed with the United Nations Human Rights Council, pursuant to: Chapter 4 \u2013 Complaint Procedures \u2013 of Resolution 5\/1 (Institution Building in the United Nations Human Rights Council)"},"content":{"rendered":"

REAR ADMIRAL DR. SARATH WEERASEKERA<\/span><\/em>
\nand DR. GUNADASA AMARASEKARA<\/span><\/em>
\nV<\/span><\/em>
\nTHE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA FUNCTIONING AS<\/span><\/em>
\nMEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS<\/span><\/em>
\nCOUNCIL<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

A Petition filed with the United Nations Human Rights Council, pursuant to:
\nChapter 4 \u2013 Complaint Procedures \u2013 of Resolution 5\/1 (Institution Building in the United
\nNations Human Rights Council)
\nSubmitted by:
\n1) THE GLOBAL SRI LANKAN FORUM
\n2) THE FEDERATION OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (SRI
\nLANKA) and,
\nPROFESSIONALS FOR A BETTER FUTURE
\n37\/8 Upananda Batugedara Mw. Off Chapel Lane
\nNugegoda, Sri Lanka
\n15th March 2018<\/h3>\n

TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/strong>
\ni. INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PETITION 3<\/strong>
\nii. SUMMARY OF THE PETITION 4<\/strong>
\n1. JURISDICTION 5 – 9<\/strong>
\n2 URGENCY OF THE MATTER 9 – 12<\/strong>
\n3. THE FACTS UNDERLYING THE PETITION 12 – 18<\/strong>
\n4. THE SPECIFIC GRIEVANCE OF THE PETITIONERS 18 – 22<\/strong>
\n5. LEGAL ISSUES 22 – 27<\/strong>
\n6. THE PETITIONERS HAVE NO OTHER AVAILABLE REMEDY 27<\/strong>
\n7. RELIEF SOUGHT 27 – 28<\/strong>
\nANNEXES<\/strong>
\n1. Resolution 30\/1 of 1st October 2015.<\/strong>
\n2. Resolution S-11 of 27th May 2009<\/strong>
\n3. Resolution 19\/2 of March 2012<\/strong>
\n4. Resolution 22\/1 of March 2013<\/strong>
\n5. Resolution 25\/1 of March 2014<\/strong>
\n6. UN General Assembly Resolution 60\/251 of 3rd April 2006<\/strong>
\n7. Chapter 5 (Agenda and Program of Work) Resolution 5\/1<\/strong>
\n8. Extract from Human Rights Council Report 22\/2<\/strong>
\n9. Extract from Human Rights Council Report 30\/2<\/strong>
\n10. Extract from Human Rights Council Report 34\/2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Full Report<\/strong><\/h2>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items17\/New%20Book%20to%20Print%202018.04.05.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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REAR ADMIRAL DR. SARATH WEERASEKERA and DR. GUNADASA AMARASEKARA V THE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA FUNCTIONING AS MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL A Petition filed with the United Nations Human Rights Council, pursuant to: Chapter 4 \u2013 Complaint Procedures \u2013 of Resolution 5\/1 (Institution Building in the United Nations Human Rights Council) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}